According to reports coming from dealers, Honda will be offering a mid-cycle update to the Honda Civic sedan this fall – just 18 months after the new model was launched. The move signals a rush to improve the Civic in time for the 2013 model year after it received critical reviews from Consumer Reports and [...]
Honda has just announced that in conjunction with Mugen and J.A.S. Motorsport, the brand will be entering in to the World Touring Car Championship with a custom Civic. Honda R&D will be making a custom motor, manufactured and maintained by Mugen. Development will be handled by J.A.S., and will base the model on the new [...]
Interested, perhaps distracted by the sucess of the Nissan Quashai compact crossover, Honda wants to jump in the game with a shrunken CR-V, which temporarily will be known as the Civic SUV until Honda publish a name for it. Initially, the concept drew me some worry, thinking there might be some Mercedes-esque micro niching going [...]
A $10,000 lawsuit has been filed against Honda Motor Co. by a Los Angeles woman who claims her Civic Hybrid doesn’t meet its gas mileage outlook. The claim was filed on Tuesday in American Honda headquarters city of Torrance, CA small claims court by 46 year old Heather Peters. Peters claims that the 50 mpg [...]
Honda has notified its dealers not to sell some cars until they complete a recall to fix an air bag defect, which has been linked to 18 injuries and two deaths. The problem lies within the driver side air bag, which can deploy with a lot of force and send metal shards into the driver. [...]
Recently, angsty consumers and of course ‘the internet’ have not been kind to the new and perhaps uninspired Honda Civic; there is some hope though as Consumer Reports has just awarded the sportier Civic Si the “recommended” designation. The news comes from a comparo between the Si and the VW Jetta GLI; though many feel [...]
Honda said that it expects sales to grow in 2012 with the Honda brand targeting a 23.6 percent sales increase and Acura targeting a 40 percent sales increase. According to Tetsuo Iwamura, president and CEO of American Honda, the gains will be lead by new cars and trucks that the company plans to update for both [...]
Honda says that it finally has a diesel engine that should worry its European competitors. Setting the Volkswagen Group diesel engine as a benchmark, Honda says that it has built a new 120-hp 1.6 liter diesel engine that can produce a strong 221 lb-ft while emitting a CO2 level of less than 100 grams per [...]
Earlier this week, Honda released the first details and images of the upcoming Honda CR-Z ICF, a performance version of the hybrid hatchback developed by the company’s in-house tuning firm Mugen. Showing its commitment to performance models, senior sources at Honda have confirmed that the company will indeed be doing a new version of the [...]
Honda announced today that it is expanded a previous recall of certain 2001 through 2003 model-year Honda and Acura brand vehicles to replace the driver’s airbag inflator originally install in around 273,000 vehicles in the United States. The recall covers an additional 917,267 vehicles. Honda said that “affected driver’s airbag inflators may deploy with too [...]
